Assesing Investment Risks in ICO

Student: Malkin Nikita

Supervisor: Victor A Lapshin

Educational Programme: Economics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2019

The theme of my work is "Risk analysis of investing in ICO". Within the framework of this topic, my task was to collect a substantial sample for the construction of an econometric study in order to find the factors that сould be indicators of ICO projects' success. I collected a sample of ~ 1500 projects and selected the variables that are necessary to build this model in my opinion. The dependent variable was the results of the project, independent - whether the project had whitepaper, roadmap, KYC, Bounty program, as well as the number of people in project's team and advisors. Also, to visualize the distribution of ICO, the countries and the scope of projects were included in the data. After analyzing with descriptive statistics and logit regression studies, the following results were obtained. Whitepaper and KYC were relatively relative to the outcome of the project, the other variables had a contradictory impact.

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